Elizabeth Greenhalgh (Sydney University of New South Wales)

Broschiertes Buch

The French Army and the First World War

Beschreibung

A comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Elizabeth Greenhalgh revises our understanding not only of wartime strategy and combat, but also of other crucial aspects of France's war, from mutinies and mail censorship to medical services, railways and weapons development.

Autor

Elizabeth Greenhalgh is a QE II Research Fellow (Australian Research Council), based in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. She has published a large number of refereed articles on aspects of the Great War, and is the author of Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge, 2005). In 2007 this book won the accolade of a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. In 2011 she published Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General (Cambridge, 2011) and a French translation appeared in September 2013. For many years she was editor of War and Society, the international peer-reviewed military history journal. She has considerable experience of working in French and other European archives, and has presented papers on the First World War at conferences in Australia, Britain, France, Canada and the United States. Currently she is working on a study of 1918 analysing, as its title states, How the Allies Won.

Produktdetails

• Armies of the Great War
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781107605688
• ISBN-10: 1107605687
• Artikelnr.: 40787194